amy: donna markham, the mom of chelsea markham, who took her own life after being sexually abused byassar. as we wrap up, mark alesia, the judge in this case, a fierce advocate for the women, judge rosemarie aquilina, cleared her docket to allow more than 150 women to testify. and also became very controversial when she said "i would allow some or many people to do to him what he did to others." can you speak about her and where this all leads? >> well, yes, she certainly has come under some criticism for how she conducted the sentencing hearing, but as someone who was there and knows some of the situation it was a where there was healing because of what she did, allowing all of these women to speak and to confront nassar, and i think that those two weeks catapulted this into people's consciousness. i mean, our reporting has been out there for quite some time and it took this woman after woman after woman, bravely giving, baring their souls and giving this searing testimony, to get people's attention. future, usahe gymnastics has to move forward with an entirely new board. they have

. >> reporter: donna markham spoke about her dawrkt chelsea. >> he sexually abused her, and he had the adaft to do that while i was sitting right there in the room. >> reporter: chelsea markham's story ended in especially deep tragedy. >> in 2009, she took her own life because she couldn't deal with the pain anymore. it will be 10 years in march that i lost my baby. >> reporter: the court is expected to hear this week from at least 98 women, all describing abuse by larry nassar, some still minors. 29 greerld nicole soos was a skater. >> sometimes i can't even tolerate another person touching me in an intimate situation without feeling physical pain. >> reporter: jennifer rood bedford was a volleyball player at michigan state. >> i remember laying there wondering, is this okay? is this doesn't seem right. what's happening? i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: later she addressed nasser directly. >> and i believe that what you've done, those choices you made is not who god intended for you to be when he chose to bring you into this world. you can choose to be a better man and to be a d

another woman who testified at tuesday's hearing was donna markham, the mother of former gymnast chelsea markham, who was sesexually abused by nassar when she was only 10 years old. chelsea went on to commit suicide in 2009. , she took her own life because she could not deal with the pain anymore. it will be 10 years in march that i lost my baby. she was 23 years old. she would have been 33 now. and every day i misiss her. every day. and it all starteded with him. it all started with him and just became worse as the years whereby until she could not deal with it anymore. amy: larry nassar faces decades in p prison on chargrges of sexy assaulting and abusing minorors. he has alreaeady been sentencedo 60 years in prison after being convicted on child pornography charges in a separate case. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on martin luther king g day here in new york gathered to oppose , hundreds the detention of local activist ravi ragbir. he was to tame last week when he went to his check-in with immigration

markham. donna's daughter, chelsea, was an athlete under the supervision of nassar. she could not give a victim impact statement and here's why, according to her mother, donna. in 2009, chelsea took her own life. he couldn't deal with the pain anymore. every day i miss her. it all started with him. daniel moore, i hope being reduced to a prison number -- talking about nassar -- will define you as it defined me for so long. i will no longer be known as a mber and i will be dr. danielle moore. megan, as i stand here i still flash back to the feelings of fear, laying frozen in the office, my sweating, shaking body, adrenaline pumping, painfully clutching the sides of the table, waiting for the sick treatment to be over. gwen anderson. i still remember him saying, it's ok. i know you're not used to being touched there but it will feel better. and here's what gwen's coach had to say. thomas brennan. for the record, go to hell. what you did to everyone else who trusted you and sent girls your way is disgusting, reprehensible, unfore give, and i reserve the balance of my ti